DISQUS

eee_eff · 1 year ago

Airline, trucking, and long distance deregulation were a win from just about every ideological perspective. It was good for consumers (especially low-income consumers), free markets, and economic efficiency. The major losers were incumbent businesses who no longer enjoyed monopoly profits.

Agreed, but other deregulation, like the Reagan administration's efforts which deregulated some of the medical equipment or eliminated the requirements for the reporting of amusement park deaths and injuries, undercut health and safety efforts, but enriched corporations. Those are different, and largely happened outside of the arena of public debate.
Other Ezra · 1 year ago

"eliminated the requirements for the reporting of amusement park deaths and injuries"

Keeping your head and arms inside the Mixer at all times is a moral values issue.
dimitris · 1 year ago

A few years ago I read something in The Economist that resonates/dovetails with this article and the comments.

It basically said (I'm paraphrasing, it's all from memory) that the Bush administration and a lot of Republican senators/representatives had often confused support of free private enterprise with its subtle opposite, support of a private enterprise.

That same confusion makes appearances on TLF from time to time. CEI/AEI contibutors, that's you I'm looking at, for the most part.